August 21, 2008
Constitutional Scholar Obama Questions Legality Of Slavery Ban
Printer FriendlyBy: Ann Coulter
This week, Barack Obama's challenge is to select a running mate who's young, hip, and whose accomplishments in life don't overshadow Obama's. Allow me to suggest Kevin Federline.
The only thing we can be sure of is that Obama will choose someone who is the polar opposite of all his advisers until now. In other words, it will be a very, very white male who was probably proud of his country even before being chosen as Obama's running mate.
Obama's got a lot of ground to make up following that performance last weekend at the Saddleback presidential forum with pastor Rick Warren.
After seeing Obama defend infanticide with the glib excuse that the question of when life begins is above his "pay-grade," Rev. Jeremiah Wright announced that although he's known Obama for 30 years, he only recently became aware of how extreme the senator's viewpoints were. Wright, after all, has his reputation to consider.
Network heads responded by dashing off an urgent memo: During the main presidential debates this fall, ask NO questions about abortion, ethics or evil! Morality isn't the Democrats' forte.
Obama's defenders spin his abominable performance in the Saddleback forum by saying he's just too smart to give a straight answer. As Rick Warren charitably described Obama's debate performance: "He likes to nuance things ... He's a constitutional attorney." The constitutional lawyer "does nuance," as Bill Maher said on "Larry King Live," "and you saw how well that goes over with the Rick Warren people."
If that's Obama's excuse, he ought to know a few basics about the Constitution.
Did the big constitutional lawyer whose "nuance" is too sophisticated for Rick Warren's audience see the letter his wife sent out on his behalf in 2004? Michelle Obama denounced a federal law banning partial-birth abortion, writing that "this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional." Clearly!
The Supreme Court later found the law not "unconstitutional," but "constitutional" -- which I believe may have been the precise moment when Michelle Obama realized just how ashamed she had always been of her country.
But most stunningly, when Warren asked Obama if he supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, Obama said he did not "because historically -- because historically, we have not defined marriage in our Constitution."
I don't care if you support a marriage amendment or not. That answer is literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say. If marriage were already defined in the Constitution, we wouldn't need an amendment, no?
Say, you know what else was "historically" not defined in the Constitution? Slavery. The words "slavery" and "slave" do not appear once in the original Constitution. The framers correctly thought it would sully the freedom-enshrining document to acknowledge the repellent practice. (Much like abortion!)
But in 1865, the 13th Amendment banned slavery throughout the land, in the first constitutional phrase ever to mention "slavery": "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
On Obama's "historical" argument, they shouldn't have passed the 13th Amendment because the Constitution "historically" had not mentioned slavery.
Do we know for a fact Barack Obama has read the Constitution? Obama's Facebook profile: "I'm pro-infanticide, I love sunsets, and I don't get the 13th Amendment!"
This is the guy who thinks he can condescend to Clarence Thomas? Asked at the Saddleback forum which Supreme Court justice Obama would not have nominated, Obama said ... the black one!
In Obama's defense, he said he thought Thomas wasn't experienced enough "at the time." So I guess Obama thinks Thomas should have to "wait his turn."
By contrast, Obama has experience pouring out of those big ears of his. Asked last year by Robin Roberts on ABC's "Good Morning America" about his lack of experience in foreign policy, Obama took umbrage.
Swelling up his puny little chest, Obama said: "Well, actually, my experience in foreign policy is probably more diverse than most others in the field. I'm somebody who has actually lived overseas, somebody who has studied overseas. I majored in international relations."
He actually cited his undergraduate major as a qualification to be president.
But on Saturday night, Obama said he didn't think Clarence Thomas was a "strong enough jurist or legal thinker" to be put on the Supreme Court.
I bet Thomas has heard of the 13th Amendment!
Posted by redguy at August 21, 2008 06:50 AM
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I'm certain you are correct, Thomas has indeed heard of the 13th amendment.
I'm also certain that,with the exception of himself, he'd like to repeal it.
Posted by: kevind
at August 21, 2008 07:23 AM
Amen Anne, I am so glad that people are starting to get to see the real Marxist behind the mask. I had his "Campaign for Change" in Florida call me to ask for support. They could not tell me one thing he had done, or was going to do other than "Change" things. I have often said that he is nothing more than a Political version of Jim Jones or David Koresh. He is NOT a Patriot, Despite his declaration of being a Constitutional Lawyer, I doubt he has any more exposure to that document than what his Pseudo-intellectual Liberal Professors have told him it contains. Thankfully all that is starting to come out now before the election, rather than after when we would be stuck with a combination of Marx, Hitler, and Stalin, all wrapped up in one Scrawny big eared, package.
Posted by: mfee01
at August 21, 2008 07:28 AM
Very entertaining column, Anne. I wonder when a Republican, holding political office, will stand up and say I don’t believe in anything Obama believes in; but I do believe in something he obviously doesn’t: America.
Posted by: Bernard
at August 21, 2008 08:47 AM
Obama saying Justice Thomas wasn't experienced enough is like the Freshman "Snot Nosed Teen" presuming he knows more than the PhD. Professor teaching him.
Since Obama is a Senator, and they write the laws on Late Term Abortions, he has had countless Doctors testify that there is not ONE medical need for a late term abortion. They have also gave testamony of how a child is by medical definition, alive and a living human inside of the mother's womb. So if determining when "Human Rights" & Protection can be afforded to an unborn child is "Above his Pay Grade", then Obama just admitted he is currently holding a position that is ABOVE HIS ability to perform. Why in the world does he think we should elevate him further???
"People are promoted to their level of incompetence" It is obvious that B. Hussein Obama has already reach his!!!
Posted by: NewOrlnsGentleman
at August 21, 2008 12:04 PM
Ann --
While I agree with most of your article, I'd like to point out that in Article 1 Section 2 Paragraph 3 the "Three Fifths Compromise" is laid out. While the words "Slavery or Slaves" are not used, the compromise definately refers to them. In my book, that means they were constitutionally recognized.
Posted by: mcrider
at August 21, 2008 03:00 PM
[Michelle Obama denounced a federal law banning partial-birth abortion, writing that "this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional." Clearly!]
WEll, in this system of representative republic laws and THE "Rule Of Law", as referred to as "The Law" or the "Law of the Land"...one must first understand there are limitations on taking human life and the treatment of same, as defined and delineated in our Constitution, U.S. Legal Code Criminal Statues, Civil Statutes, and the Bill of Rights.
The practice of such "illegitimate medical procedures" as referenced herein should more accurately defined as "infanticide" or "negligent homicide" under our laws...commonly referred to as murder.
Tough duck, Michelle...you and Barack would be well-served to consider reading up on the above before running off at the mouth and condescending to us hateful, unruly, gun clinging, Bible thumping American traditionalist, conservatives. We actually respect these laws, abide by them, and respect Almighty God's points of view, formally Jehovah-Yahweh, relative thereto, since He initiated human life and the miracle of birth from the beginning.
Maybe they didn't teach you these precepts in the church or Sunday School where you spent your early years. Instead, you may have heard sermons on "liberation" or "reparation" in lieu of sound Biblical doctrine where these basic principles are discussed at length. We call it Christianity.
Posted by: freetextpal
at August 24, 2008 07:12 PM
This is the great thing about the democrats' latest odd choice for public office: he's a bottomless source of great material for jokes. He's obviously in way over his head. His supporters openly hate America. The truth about him is shocking. His mere existence is a throwback to the "let's make our parents mad" 60s, when any cherished tradition was a prime target for some radical brat's most artfully offensive words and deeds; when spoiled, upper-middle-class teenagers rejected and mindlessly "changed" things, not to improve them, but just to make them different. If the democrats had chosen Bozo the Clown to run for president, he would not be a more entertaining buffoon than Barrack Obama.
The only thing more amusing is watching the old-style, traditional news networks bend over backwards and tie themselves in knots trying to depict Obama in a light favorable to his candidacy. But as they old saying goes, you can't polish a turd.
In my opinion, the fun won't really start unless Obama is actually elected. If he somehow makes it into the white house--I really don't see how that's possible because he's such an odd ball--his bloopers, gaffs, ignorance and narrow-mindedness will become legendary. He'll be known as the goofiest president ever. We'll have books, movies and maybe even a sitcom about it.
Posted by: Florida Cane
at September 2, 2008 10:38 AM
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